Pros: Quiet Good Value Quiet

Cons: None

Overall Review: Perfect alternative for noisy 7970 cooler. I bought this for my son's computer and this has now eliminated all the noise coming from his pc when gaming. Perfect.

Pros: inexpensive solution for both sound and cooling for the 680gtx with stock pcb. ( also known as stacked power )

Cons: I could say directions are not that good but in reality they are all you need but then again I am use to using aftermarket coolers. Listing here does not say it works on gtx680 and if you try to verify with arctic cooling their help does not reply to email and if you find their phone number they will say they need to verify and never call back. They lose an egg because if I couldn't even verify the Newegg one was just listed poorly do not expect servivce if something is wrong. ( NOTE: I have never had a problem with one and have used at least a dozen/more like 20+ of their different ones on dif. GPU's

Overall Review: Dropped operating temps full load 10c which is good considering it's size. If you are new to these just remember use eraser on memory and vr and if you don't have one at least use alcohol, barely dab any on and move it around with the aluminum fins and make sure you keep the fins on the memory surrounding the GPU on the edge ( as far away from gpu heat sink as possible yet still covering the memory).and leave them for about an hour, take the time to stick on your spacers on the heatsink and make lunch ( I barbeque) eat and then you should be good. place gpu body on top and screw it in and you are done. actual assembly time should take about 15-20 minutes and the rest is clean and wait time.

Pros: -fits 1080 and 1070 cards -plugs into oem fan connector -VERY quiet both at idle and in full speed) -VERY effective (my 1080 at 120% power limit maxes at 67c in furmark gpu stress, in a 27c room) -ample amount of heat sinks to use

Cons: -a little heavy -would be nice for them to design a spring-tension mechanism so you don't over tighten the cpu cooler...otherwise you go by feel

Overall Review: IF YOU HAVE A FOUNDERS EDITION GTX, BUY THIS COOLER. IT'S 100X QUIETER THAN OEM AND DROPPED MY MAX TEMP BY 20C.

Pros: Overall this is a great cooler. It cools very well and is very quiet. I installed it on an AMD Radeon HD 6870 that had a very poor cooler on it to begin with. The stock heatsink/fan pushed temps close to 95 degrees under full load! Now the card goes up to around 65 degrees under full load with this cooler on it. Idle is around 35 degrees. I now also have heatsinks on each memory chip (which the stock card didn't have), so I really think this cooler will prolong the life of my 6870. I had to get in touch with Arctic regarding a few things. They were very prompt with getting back to me and gave me great service. I'm very pleased with them as a company. 6 year warranty!

Cons: Big! (which is to be expected with its cooling power) The card and this cooler take up 3 slots now opposed to 2 before. The total card/cooler length on my 6870 is about 25cm / ~10in. Quite a bit of card flex when installed in my case. Since the cooler is pretty heavy, the back of the card (where the pci-e power connectors are) sags down. It's not terrible and I'm sure the card would have been fine, but I just didn't like that. A nice little fix I came up with was to take one of the metal card slot brackets from my case, screw it into a perfectly located hole on my bottom-mounted power supply, and use the card slot bracket as a kind of support beam that sits almost dead center on the outer edge of the 2 fans on the Arctic cooler (close to where it says "250 watts"). The card is now perfectly level with no sag whatsoever. (The hole in my power supply had nothing on the other side and I made sure not to screw into any components inside. If anyone tries this, just use some quality double-stick tape to attach a card slot bracket or whatever else to your bottom-mounted power supply (if you have one) if you're worried about your card sagging. Double-sided tape is much safer than having screws go into your power supply. It just happened to work out perfectly for my system, and I just had to use a small case screw to get the job done. If you don't have a bottom-mounted power supply and you're worried about the card flex, you'll just have to get creative.)

Overall Review: The version on Arctic's website comes with extra/revised mounting hardware. It also comes with a new kind of thermal glue/adhesive that doesn't require mixing (used to attach the ram and VR heatsinks). Most people are getting the older version that Newegg has pictured as of this review (the cooler and heatsinks are the same, just has revised hardware and thermal adhesive). From what Arctic told me, the 2-part G-1 thermal glue mix is removable and the 1-part TG003 thermal adhesive is more permanent. The package that I got is exactly what's pictured here on Newegg as of this review. I got the 2-part mix that people complain about, but I had no problems with it. Here are my steps... 1. Remove the old cooler and clean your card. There are lots of cleaning methods out there. The manual says to use an eraser. Others use a Q-tip and isopropyl alcohol. There are also cleaning products you can buy specifically for this task. 2. Mix the thermal glue if yours is 2-part. Be sure to mix it for 5 min so both white and grey compounds are completely mixed. Use a small plastic container of sorts to mix in as a large flat surface makes the compounds spread out making it harder to mix causing more work for you do to. As long as your surfaces are clean, I would apply right when you're done mixing (the instructions say within 15 min). Hold each heatsink down for about 10 seconds and let the card sit there when you're done. Don't install the cooler or do anything else with the card. I used the plastic package the Arctic cooler came in to cover the top of my card and let it sit on my kitchen table for almost a full 24 hours. The manual says 5 hours, but I really think this is the major pitfall people run into. I still had lots of glue left over and kept it sitting in the container I mixed it in. After 5 hours, I used the "mixing wand" it came with to test it. It was still very liquidy to my surprise. I can easily see why people are having heatsinks fall off. I can't tell you exactly how long it took to harden as I didn't check it every hour. I just let the card sit there for the 20 hours or so and tested the glue at that point. It was much better and completely solid as that point (not a hard and brittle solid, but just not runny like before). I knew the heatsinks were not going anywhere if they got bumped when I was installing the cooler itself now. I know a full day is a long time to wait, but why not sacrifice one day to make sure you have a perfect worry-free install? Go read a book or something and stop playing games all the time! lol j/k I'm on the computer all the time and used a backup video card to get me through the day. Anyway, the point is... the 5 hour cure time is not long enough! The updated manual says 1 hour cure time for the 1 part thermal adhesive, but I would wait a day with that as well. 3. Proceed with installing the cooler itself. I hope this long review helps somebody out there. It took me forever to write! :)

Pros: Very Quiet. Price. Compatibility. Looks.

Cons: Fans could be faster.

Overall Review: I bought this thing strictly for my Powercolor 7950 3GB BOOST. It is NOT directly compatible - but if you know what you're doing, you can make it compatible. With a COPPER SHIM, this Twin Turbo IS compatible with my PC 79503GB BOOST Videocard. Copper shim are very cheap and makes up for the "repressed core" on this particular 7950, making direct contact and cutting temps down ALOT. Before I bought this cooler, my temps topped out @ 70c on the core and 66c/67c on both VRMS before crashing/freezing. NOW my temps top out @ 66c on the core and 58c/59c on the VRMS and no more crashing. I made this work for my 7950, so can you. I used all 11 ram heatsinks this cooler comes with and used 1 different heatsink for the extra vram that needed one because the PC 7950 has 12 ram chips. This cooler is insanely quiet also, gives off a slight "whirrrr" when @ 100percent/2100+ RPM. Totally worth it and was absolutely needed in my case. I don't look back and surely didn't think twice. BTW this cooler has the exact same screw measurements as the more expensive "AA Extreme 7970" edition but for half the price. The AA Extreme 7970 edition is EXACTLY the same as the Extreme III, only with a repressed core contact plate. GG I Win. Thanks. Did You Find This Review Helpful? Of Course You Did <3

Pros: Solid construction. Very quiet, even on full speed. Broad card compatibility list.

Cons: The heatsink glue. The included directions said to go to the website for the most up to date instructions, so I did. Online, it said that the glue was in a tube, what I actually got was two packets that had me mix the glue together and it was a 6 hour cure time. Granted, I don't mind doing that, but trying to get all of the glue out of each individual packet is a pain in the backside. Also, may not fit some cases. I have about 3mm clearance from my side fan.

Overall Review: I am overall impressed with this cooler. My EVGA Superclocked 560Ti was running around the 80c mark (on SWTOR, not even Kombustor or Furmark) and the fan was obnoxiously loud. so I threw my old 260 GTX in while I waited for this cooler to arrive. My idle temps went from around 55c all the way down to 30c (that's keeping my case fans turn down low for silence), and from 80c with casual gaming down to around 52c. I will surely recommend this to anyone who is looking for an aftermarket cooler and has only a mid-tower case. Deducting one Egg since the website advertised glue in a tube with no mixing but I got the more tedious version.

Pros: I have used these on multiple cards, although this model I have used less often than the 3-fan one. I recall first hearing about these from a friend a number of years ago, and while I have since gone to custom water loops, these are no slouch! With this model, I have used it on an EVGA GTX570 2.5GB and on a Sapphire HD5870 2GB. Both cards came equipped with reference-esque coolers, and both are known for getting HOT! The 570 had it installed about a week after purchase (which was a few days after its launch) until I sold it to a friend before buying 2x 580s, and the 5870 used it for probably two years before I sold the card. These things cool as well as is possible for air! Seriously, the more expensive models offer greatly diminishing returns, these are the ones to get. GTX570 TEMPS - FURMARK (stock/with AC - Ambient of 24C): IDLE - 46C / 34C LOAD - 77C / 62C (card OC'd +12%) HD5870 TEMPS: IDLE - 48C / 40C LOAD - 83C / 62C (OC'd +21%) Impressive!

Cons: Well, they don't do nearly as good a job as water cooling, though they do cost less. For example, my dual 580s (Heatkiller full coverage blocks + Backplates, same loop as CPU/MB, 480+360+2x240 Black Ice GTX/XSPC RX rads w 22x GT AP29's push-pull), despite being even hotter than the 570, having 2x as many cards, and "sharing" heat with the 2700K and Maximus IV Extreme-Z VRMs/SB, the temps were as follows... 2x EVGA GTX580 3GB in SLI TEMPS: (GPU1 Temp - GPU2 Temp) STOCK IDLE: 44C / 47C STOCK LOAD: 78C / 82C H2O IDLE: 28C / 27C H2O LOAD: 46C / 43C Clearly, Custom water is the best way to go. However, it's expensive so these air coolers are a respectable alternative. Other cons: - Terrible instructions - Dumps heat into case, not exhaust - EnzoTech VRAM/VRM Copper Heatsinks performed better than the included stuff by 4-8C - Thermal Adhesive is average at best - SLI is going to be a HUGE PAIN IN THE... - Heavy, so get a backplate

Overall Review: Like I said, if you want/need lower temps but don't have the 250-400 for a CPU+GPU loop (w 2x rads), these are a very viable alternative. However, your case MUST HAVE GOOD AIRFLOW! These are extremely dependant on good airflow. Something like the Antec 1100, CM690+II, Corsair C70, or RW Blackhawk (large or XL) will be perfect. So while you do lose the stock fan whine, you will hear case fans instead. This is because you should be running every fan possible. I'd suggest a Bare Minimum of: 2x120/140 front intake, 1x120/140 rear exhaust, 1-2x120/140 top exhaust, 1x120/140 bottom intake, and 1x120/140 side intake/exhaust. ALSO: a PCI "exhaust blower" fan HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Some excellent case fans (I'm a cooling nut): - NZXT FN120/140, FX120/140, FZ120/140 - Scythe Ultra Kaze/Slipstream - Corsair AP120/AF120-140 - Gentle Typhoons - Bgears Blasters - Yate Loon High/Med - Akasa Apache/Viper - Cougar HDB 120/140 - Sanyo-Denkei San Ace 120x25mm/38mm (the BEST) Good luc

Pros: -Easy installation. -Very quiet. -Cheap and affordable. -2 fans and thick heatsinks.

Cons: -May sag a bit for some chassis's.

Overall Review: The temperatures at which the PC idled and load was at... -stock fan when not spinning (broken); 50c idle, 91c load. -stock fan when was working: 37c idle, 85c load. -Arctic Turbo: 35c idle, 48c load. The Arctic would have a bigger difference on idle if my chassis didn't have poor airflow. I've always seen other people say that the installation of this product is very hard and complicated but if you follow the images and replicate how they do and work with common sense on placement then you're installing of the heatsinks should be fine and perfect. Actually putting the fan on the card between the GPU is the hardest part and what I spent the most time looking at and comprehending but once I found out that I was overlooking an image, I immediately figured it out. (Since the installation is hard for some people; then I would NOT recommend getting a GPU stock fan and installing it yourself if you believe you don't have the knowledge or capabilities of doing so; if you do this wrong you'll lose a 400-1000 dollar [how much ever you spent on your GPU], so make sure what you're doing or have someone you know do it for you if they know a lot about GPU's.